ROCKFORD - Ada senior Chase Sumner won the 145-pound bracket and most valuable wrestler titles at the Parkway Invitational Saturday, leading the Bulldog grapplers to a solid third-place finish at the 12-team event Saturday.
Sumner went 4-0 to improve his record to 14-0 this season, and was voted by the coaches as tourney MVP. He also won the same honor at the Lincolnview Invite Dec. 9.
Parkway won the event with 199.5 points, followed by second-place Spencerville with 164 points. The Bulldogs took third with 150, followed by Delphos St. John's (122.5) and Hicksville (104).
ONU seniors Grant Cayot (Roanoke, Ind./Blackhawk Christian), J.J. Fortner(Maumee/Anthony Wayne), Chris Garbig (Wilder, Ky./Highlands) and Cory Lains (Zionsville, Ind.) have been named Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association All-Ohio for the 2017 season.
Cayot and Fortner were both dubbed First Team All-Ohio, while Garbig was named Second Team All-Ohio and Lains was named Third Team All-Ohio.
Cayot earned his first All-Ohio honor in his career after being named First Team All-OAC in 2017.
Four members of the ONU women's soccer team have been named Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association First Team All-Ohio.
Senior Hannah Reich (Howell, Mich.), and sophomores Meagan Grierson (Miamisburg), Haley Moses (Mason) and Rose Nienaber (Cincinnat/Oak Hills) all earned the honor for the Polar Bears.
Ohio Northern landed four members on the First Team for the second consecutive season.
Reich earned the OCSA honor for the third time in her career, and was named to the First Team for the first time.
The senior also became the first Ohio Northern women's soccer player in school history to be named a First Team All-American for her efforts this season.
By Grant Pepper
On our way back to Dre White's office we cut through the Ada High School boys' locker room.
It was there, in that locker room, where White wrote the date “February 19, 2016” on the whiteboard last week leading up to the boys basketball team’s first conference game of the season -- a home bout with local rival Allen East last Friday.
He followed that date with a number, “665.” It had been 665 days since that date, nearly two years ago, which was the last time Ada had won a Northwest Conference basketball game.
ADA - Visiting Delphos Jefferson raced to a 25-3 lead and rolled on for a 68-34 win over Ada in a Northwest Conference girls basketball contest Thursday evening.
The purple and gold dropped to 1-6 and 0-3 in the NWC with the defeat, while the Lady Wildcats improved to 7-2 and 2-0 after the win.
Wildcat senior guard Devyn Carder scored eight of her 14 points early as hot-shooting DJ pressed and bombed its way to a 19-3 bulge just over four minutes into the fray.
